Hindustan Times
The Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena like to believe that the Mangeshkar sisters belong to them. In fact, not just belong to them – the Thackerays believe that they own these national assets. Read more
(17 votes, average: 3.47 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 31, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Abeeda Parveen, Ajmal Kasab, Asha Bhosale, Azad Maidan¸ Vilasrao Deshmukh, Bal Thackeray, Congress, hindustan times, Lata Mangeshkar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Michael Jackson, news, Pakistan, Runa Laila, Shiv Sena, Shiv Udyog Sena, Singly political, Thackerays, UPA
When Maharashtra’s Home Minister R R Patil first mooted the transfer of Bombay’s police commissioner Arup Patnaik a day after some Muslim groups ran riot at the Azad Maidan on August 11, 2012, I am told, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told him, “If Patnaik goes, so do you”. Read more
(11 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Arup Patnaik, Azad Maidan, bjp, Gopinath Munde, hindustan times, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, MNS, Mulayam Singh, mumbai, Mumbai violence, NCP, Prithviraj Chavan, R R Patil, Raj Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
During his first term as chief minister of Maharashtra, I had once quizzed Vilasrao Deshmukh about the general feeling of critics that his was a lack-lustre government that was really incapable of doing anything significant for the people. Read more
(22 votes, average: 3.59 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 17, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Babhalgaon, Bombay, Breach Candy hospital, Congress, Latur, Maharashtra, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Marathwada region, mumbai, Nationalist Congress Party, Sharad Pawar, Singly political, Solapur, UPA, Vasdantdada Patil, Vilasrao Deshmukh
I was sitting in the middle of the road, atop my brand new leaf-green VIP suitcase, just outside the gates of the Indian Airlines office in Tezpur, where the airlines bus had deposited me just a few minutes ago, and not knowing where to go from there when I spotted a few men carrying daos and some old-fashioned bows and arrows making their way towards me. Read more
(18 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 10, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, bjp, Bodo movement, bodo tribals, communal divides, Communalism, ehnic violence, Hindu, Hindustantimes, Kokrajhar, Muslim, Nellie massacres, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Tezpur, UPA
Now that Team Anna is contemplating forming a political party, I wonder why Anna Hazare had to go as far as New Delhi to look for a clean government. Read more
(10 votes, average: 3.1 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 3, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Albert Camus, Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Congress, hindustan times, IAC, India Against Corruption, Kiran Bedi, Lok Sabha, Nationalist Congress Party, news, Prithviraj Chavan, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Team Anna
